Here is the latest satellite photo of the expanding internment camps #China is using to detain Muslims in vast numbers. I have asked the Trump administration to issue #GlobalMagnitsky sanctions on officials carrying out this criminal policy. nyti.ms/2O0wPuqpic.twitter.com/dOQvLOyls0

China’s crackdown on Uighur Muslims escalates: “Penetration of everyday life is almost really total now. You have ethnic identity, Uighur identity in particular, being singled out as this kind of pathology.”

"Ms. Gul said the camp she was in was ramshackle enough that children who lived nearby sometimes crept up to a window late at night and called out to their mothers inside. “Their children would come and say, ‘Mother, I miss you,’” she said. By @chubailiang

Shocking @ChuBailiang reporting on China's de-islamization camps, the country's largest internment program since Mao. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese muslims detained for weeks or month of brainwashing, often without any legal process.

In the new #GulagArchipelago of #China, “Uighur Muslims spend their days in a high-pressure indoctrination program, where they are forced to listen to lectures, sing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party and write ‘self-criticism’ essays.”

The Chinese Communist Party is detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Xinjiang in an effort to erase their ethnic identity. If these people were Christian, no doubt the U.S. government would actual do something about it.

“In the end, all the officials had one key point,” a former detainee said. “The greatness of the Chinese Communist Party, the backwardness of Uighur culture and the advanced nature of Chinese culture.” @ChuBailiang reports on the re-education camps

"[A]uthorities in Xinjiang have recognized the power of families as an alternative source of authority,” said Rian Thum, a professor at Loyola University ... “The kind of extreme party loyalty they want has no room for that.”

China has built hundreds of interment camps in past few years as part of a campaign that has swept up hundreds of thousands of Chinese Muslims for weeks or months of what critics call brainwashing to eliminate their loyalty to Islam. ⁦@ChuBailiang⁩

Great piece @ChuBailiang, including warning from Chinese scholar at Xinjiang Party School: “Recklessly setting quantitative goals for transformation through education has been erroneously used…The targeting is imprecise, and the scope has been expanding.”

“Anyone infected with an ideological ‘virus’ must be swiftly sent for the ‘residential care’ of transformation-through-education classes before illness arises,” a document issued by party authorities in Hotan says

"Hotan feels as if under siege by an invisible enemy. Fortified police outposts and checkpoints dot the streets every few hundred yards. Schools, kindergartens, gas stations and hospitals are garlanded in barbed wire."

A campaign of breathtaking scale and ferocity that has swept up hundreds of thousands of Chinese Muslims for weeks or months of what critics describe as brainwashing, usually without criminal charges. #China #Uighurs @hrw⁩ ⁦⁦@amnesty⁩

"...hundreds of ethnic Uighur Muslims spend their days in a high-pressure indoctrination program where they are forced to listen to lectures ... and write “self-criticism” ... The goal is to remove any devotion to Islam."